1st Edition

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 2

By Lisa Zunshine Copyright 2008
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

1808 Pages
by Routledge

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.

Theatrical Examiner; The Theatrical Review, for the Year 1757 and Beginning of 1758; Thomas Wilkes, A General View of the Stage; Robert Lloyd, The Actor; Theatrical Review: or, Annals of the Drama

Biography

Lisa Zunshine